Fast electronic digital image stabilization

• Published in: Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Vol. 3; pp. 284 - 288 vol.3
• Main Authors: Morimoto, C., Chellappa, R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1996
• Subjects: Cameras; Digital images; Hardware; Image processing; Motion estimation; Pipelines; Sun; Tracking; Vehicles; Video sequences
• ISBN: 9780818672828; 081867282X
• ISSN: 1051-4651
• DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546956

We present a fast implementation of an electronic digital image stabilization system that is able to handle large image displacements. The system has been implemented in a parallel pipeline image processing hardware (Datacube Max Video 200) connected to a SUN SPARCstation 20/612. Our technique is based on a 2D feature-based multi-resolution motion estimation algorithm, that tracks a small set of features to estimate the motion of the camera. The combination of the estimates from a reference frame is used to warp the current frame in order to achieve stabilization. Experimental results using video sequences taken from a camera mounted on a moving vehicle demonstrate the robustness of the system when processing 15 frames per second.